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Quote at the start of Chapter One - “Learn from me”

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Frankenstein

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Main protagonist

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Dr Alex Hoffmann

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Where does Hoffmann live

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Geneva

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Book sent to Hoffmann at start

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The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Darwin

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When was the Darwin published

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1872 - John Murray

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Name of Hoffmann’s house

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Villa Claremont

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Hoffmann’s wife

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Gabrielle

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Name of Hoffmann’s algorithm

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VIXAL-4

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Hoffmann’s business partner

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Hugo Quarry

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Date Fear Index is set

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6th May 2010 - date of UK General Election

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11
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Burglar alarm security code

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1729

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Significance of 1729

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Hardy and Ramanujan - taxi cabSmallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways

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13
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Emergency number in Switzerland

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117

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Quote at the start of Chapter two -“A grain in the balance …”

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Darwin, Origin of Species

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Police Inspector

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Jean-Philippe Leclerc

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Hoffmann’s piano

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Bechstein

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17
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Landscape in Hoffmann’s living room

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Auerbach

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18
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Gabriel’s portraits derived from …

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MRI scans

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19
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What is Hoffmann hit by

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Fire extinguisher

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20
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Hoffmann’s nationality

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American

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21
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Gabrielle’s nationality

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British

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Where did Hoffmann used to work

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CERN - LHC

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Name of Hoffmann’s company

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Hoffmann Investment Technologies - HIT

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What is Hoffmann’s business?

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Hedge fund

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Hoffmann's security consultant
Maurice Genoud
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How much did Hoffmann pay for the Villa Claremont
$60m
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Carpet ...
Aubusson
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Gabrielle's exhibition
Human Contours
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Gabrielle's history
Born in YorkshireUni of Salford - Art and FrenchRCA - MAWorked for UN in Geneva
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Hoffman sent for what sort of scan?
CAT - Computed Axial Tomography
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Hoffmann's field
Autonomous Machine Reasoning (not AI)
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What sort of scan is recommended for Hoffmann?
MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imagin
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Hugo Quarry's life
PPE from OxfordEx-wife and three children, Lutyens mansion in SurreySki chalet in Chamonix
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Hoffmann's rule in his office
No paper
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Bill Gates' book
Business at the Speed of Light
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Where is Quarry taking clients to lunch
Beau-Rivage
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Terms - two and twenty
2% annual fee20% performance fee
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Three teams of Quants
IncubationTechnologyExecution
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IBAN prefix KYD
Cayman Islands
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Chief Risk Officer
Ganapathi Rajamani
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Cern's location in Geneva
Zimeysa
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Quarry's invitees - Most exotic
Elmira Gulzhan, 38, daughter of President of AzakhstanINSEAD graduateFrancois de Gombart-Tonnelle - lawyer
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Gap between market performance and fund performance
Alpha
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Hoffmann's quote - That is the flight of naked men
Elias Canetti in Crowds and Power
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Aristotle, 350BC defined humans as
Zoon Logon Echon - rational animal, or animal with language
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"What disturbs and alarms men are not the things but is opinions and fancies about the things"
Epictetus
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EMH
Efficient Market Hypothesis
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
FDR
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Airline being shorted
Vista Airways
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Where does the Vista Airways plane crash?
Domodedovo Airport, Moscow
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Quote at start of chapter 7 - It can't continue forever
Gordon Moore
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Where was Rajamani poached from?
FSA in London
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Promised volatility limit in prospectus
20.00%
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Cayman banki
Royal Grand Cayman Bank Ltd
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Hoffmann's doctor
Jeanne Polidori
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Gallery where Human Contours is being held
Galerie d'Art Contemporain Guy Bertrand
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Geneva's main contemporary art gallery
MAMCO
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How many pieces in Human Contours
27
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Who held the party where Hoffmann met Gabrielle
Bob Walton
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Gabrielle's large piece of an executed murderer
The Invisible Man
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Who was the murderer in The Invisible Man
James Duke Johnson - executed Florida, 1994
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Hoffmann's alma mater
Princeton
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Bertrand's ring tone
Mozart
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Total cost of Gabrielle's exhibition
192,000 francs
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River in Geneva
Rhone
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Hotel Beau Rivage is on ...
Quai de Mont Blanc
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Stabbed outside Hotel Beau Rivage in 1898
Empress of Austria
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Marginal top rate of tax in Switzerland
8.80%
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Hotel where Hoffmann is directed to
Hotel Diodati, Rue de Berne 91, room 68
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Man Hoffmann kills at the Hotel Diodati
Joseph KarpBorn 14-4-52 - age 58Offenbach am Mein
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Real life case of cannibalism
Der Rotenberg Cannibal - Armin Meiwes
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Novel on Karp's laptop
Der Metzgermeister - The Master Butcher
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Folder on Karp's laptop - Das Opfer
The Victim
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Normalcy is overrated: most normal people are assholes
Bill Clinton
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What is Vixel-4 lifting
Delta Hedge
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Quote at start of Chapter 14 - Only the paranoid survive
Andy Grove
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Quote from start of chapter 16 - Intelligent life on a planet comes of age
Richard Dawkins, the Selfish Gene
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What is automatically triggered in New York as a result of the volatility triggered by VIXEL-4
LRPs - Liquidity Replenishment Points
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How does Rajamani die?
Falls down the lift shaft
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Zimeysa is an acronym for
Zone Industrielle de Mayrin-Satigny
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What are all the roadworks in Zimeysa for?
Fibre optic cables
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Fibre landing site
Marseille, France
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Where do protesters riot on the news?
Athens
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Profit VIXAL-4 makes from crash
$4.1bn

Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris (10 decks)

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